Introduction

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christine Hayes
Keyword(s):  
Classical Tradition ◽  
Hebrew Bible ◽  
The Other ◽  
Western Civilization ◽  
Classical Greece ◽  
The One ◽  
Divine Law

The chapters in part I explore the distinctive discourses of divine law that prevailed in the two sources of Western civilization—the Hebrew Bible on the one hand (chapter 1) and classical Greece and Rome on the other (chapter 2). Both the biblical tradition and the classical tradition feature ...

scholarly journals “The Bearers of Unholy Potential”: Confessing Church Sermons on the Jews and Judaism

2016 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
William Skiles
Keyword(s):  
Hebrew Bible ◽  
The Other ◽  
Nazi Regime ◽  
Confessing Church ◽  
Nazi Ideology ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
History Of ◽  
Mixed Messages ◽  
German People ◽  
The One

This article examines the nature and frequency of comments about Jews and Judaism in sermons delivered by Confessing Church pastors in the Nazi dictatorship.  The approach of most historians has focused on the history of antisemitism in the German Protestant tradition—in the works, pronouncements, and policies of the German churches and its leading figures.  Yet historians have left unexamined the most elemental task of the pastor—that is, preaching from the pulpit to the German people.  What would the average German congregant have heard from his pastor about the Jews and Judaism on any given Sunday?  I searched German archives, libraries, and used book stores, and analyzed 910 sermon manuscripts that were produced and disseminated in the Nazi regime.  I argue that these sermons provide mixed messages about Jews and Judaism.  While on the one hand, the sermons express admiration for Judaism as a foundation for Christianity, an insistence on the usage of the Hebrew Bible in the German churches, and the conviction that the Jews are spiritual cousins of Christians.  On the other hand, the sermons express religious prejudice in the form of anti-Judaic tropes that corroborated the Nazi ideology that portrayed Jews and Judaism as inferior: for instance, that Judaism is an antiquated religion of works rather than grace; that the Jews killed Christ and have been punished throughout history as a consequence.  Furthermore, I demonstrate that Confessing Church pastors commonly expressed anti-Judaic statements in the process of criticizing the Nazi regime, its leadership, and its policies.

The Wilding of Cape York Peninsula

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timothy Neale
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
The Other ◽  
Northern Australia ◽  
Partial Failure ◽  
Hand Part ◽  
Cape York ◽  
The One ◽  
Colonial Encounters

In Chapter 1, I argue that ‘wildness’ is a product settler attempts to understand and thereby spatially remake the Northern Australia since the first colonial encounters in the 17th Century. For European explorers, a region like Cape York Peninsula was a wilderness to be surveyed, and through the misadventures and conflicts of inland expeditions it came to be understood as ‘wretched’ country populated with ‘treacherous’ peoples. Surveying subsequent uses of ‘the wild’ in this region, this chapter shows that if, on the one hand, part of the settler project has been to discursively and materially dictate the shape and texture of the region through such forms of wildness – ‘wilderness,’ ‘wild time,’ ‘wild blacks’ and ‘wild whites’ – then, on the other, the contemporary ‘wilderness’ should be understood not only as a product of the resistance and resilience of its Indigenous peoples, but also as the partial failure of this project.

Conclusion

2021 ◽  
pp. 181-186
Author(s):  
Laura Quick
Keyword(s):  
Hebrew Bible ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Other ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Biblical Literature ◽  
Construction Of Identity ◽  
The One

The conclusion brings together the threads of the preceding chapters in order to demonstrate the major insight of the book, namely, that for the biblical authors personhood was negotiated in relation to the body and bodily objects. These insights have far-reaching implications for how we understand ancient conceptions of the body, the person, and relationships. On the one hand, dress is essential to the articulation and construction of identity, and this is also the case in the modern world. On the other, the multi-material aspect to ancient bodies is very different from modern Western ontologies. Ancient constructions of dress and the body are thus like and at the same time quite unlike our own. These constructions animate and inform biblical literature, and so are essential to properly understand and unpack the Hebrew Bible.

scholarly journals LA TRADICIÓN CLÁSICA EN LA OBRA DE FERNANDO PESSOA

2004 ◽  
Vol 64 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liliana Swiderski
Keyword(s):  
Classical Tradition ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
The Other ◽  
Formal Models ◽  
Fernando Pessoa ◽  
The One ◽  
Siglo Xx

O regresso de Pessoa às fontes clássicas seguiu duas direções, que neste artigo procuro identificar e analisar. De um lado, foi uma das bases de suas utopias estéticas e políticas, que expressou através de revistas, movimentos e profecias de regeneração; de outro, é relevante na produção do seu heterônimo Ricardo Reis, quem, em pleno século XX, recupera nas Odes os moldes formais e os temas de Horácio. Resumen El regreso a las fuentes clásicas que Pessoa impulsó siguió dos direcciones, que en este artículo intento identificar y analizar. Por un lado, fue una de las bases de sus utopías estéticas y políticas, que expresó a través de revistas, movimientos y profecías de regeneración; por otro, es fundamental en la producción de su heterónimo Ricardo Reis, quien, en pleno siglo XX, recupera en sus Odes los moldes formales y temáticos de Horacio. Classical tradition in Fernando Pessoa’s works Abstract This article attempts to identify and analyze the influence of classical tradition in Pessoa in two ways. On the one hand, it functions as one of the bases for his aesthetic and political utopias revealed in magazines, movements, and regeneration prophecies. On the other, it is relevant to the production under the pseudonym Ricardo Reis who, in the 20th century, restores the formal models and Horace’s themes through the Odes.

scholarly journals “We are fortress Europe!” Nativism and religion in the ideology of Pegida in the context of the European crisis

2017 ◽  
Vol 20 ◽  
pp. 53-68
Author(s):  
Mihai Murariu
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Central And Eastern Europe ◽  
The Other ◽  
Western Civilization ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Elites ◽  
European Crisis ◽  
Fortress Europe ◽  
The One

This article deals with the movement known as “Patriotic Europeans against the Islamisation of the Occident,” or Pegida, focusing primarily on the nativist dimension which often takes centre stage in its ideological discourse. Pegida describes itself as a defender of Western Civilization and of its Christian legacy from what it sees as the perils of Islamisation on the one hand, and of globalist political elites on the other. In the context of the political changes and rise of alternative visions of civil society, particularly in Central and Eastern Europe, Pegida should arguably be seen as a representative of a growing European nativist wave. Lastly, the article looks at the “Prague Declaration,” a document which was signed in 2016 by Pegida and a number of allied movements from outside of Germany.

Introduction

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adam J. Silverstein
Keyword(s):  
Hebrew Bible ◽  
Reception History ◽  
The Other ◽  
Short Summary ◽  
The One

This chapter explains what this book is about and why the topic is important. Some of the challenges in writing a book on this topic are also described. Thereafter, a short summary of each chapter is presented, followed by an overview of Esther in the Hebrew Bible. Although most of the book’s contents deal with the premodern period, in this introductory chapter I present a handful of examples in which Esther has been discussed in modern Muslim contexts, focusing on an Egyptian “televangelist” on the one hand, and a handful of Iranian politicians on the other. Moreover, the ways in which this study of a biblical book’s reception in Islamic cultures differs from other examples of Islamic reception history are described.

Die „Erfindung“ der Barmherzigkeit im Alten Israel. Biblische und nachbiblische Perspektiven

2019 ◽  
Vol 63 (2) ◽  
pp. 289-306
Author(s):  
Shimon Gesundheit
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Study ◽  
Present Article ◽  
Hebrew Bible ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Ancient Israel ◽  
Long Time ◽  
The One

Abstract For quite a long time it has been part of the opinio communis within Hebrew Bible scholarship that compassion and empathy with persona miserae is in its very meaning invented by Ancient Israel. This view has been challenged by a comparative study of Frank C. Fensham. The present article shows on the one hand that care for the poor, widows and orphans is in fact not innovative. On the other hand, a closer analysis is able to show that the biblical and Jewish care for the strangers, slaves and animals is indeed unique.

Church Architecture of Late Antique Northern Mesopotamia

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elif Keser Kayaalp
Keyword(s):  
Built Environment ◽  
Classical Tradition ◽  
First Century ◽  
The Other ◽  
Church Architecture ◽  
Late Antique ◽  
Historical Sources ◽  
Frontier Region ◽  
The One ◽  
The Church

Church Architecture of Late Antique Northern Mesopotamia examines the church architecture of Northern Mesopotamia between the fourth and eighth centuries. It focuses on settlements, plan types, artistic encounters, the remarkable continuity of the classical tradition in the architectural decoration, the heterogeneity of the building techniques, patrons, imperial motivations, dedications of churches, and stories that claim and make spaces. Employing archaeological and epigraphical material and hagiographical and historical sources, the book presents a holistic picture of the church architecture of this frontier region, encompassing the cities of Nisibis (Nusaybin), Edessa (Şanlıurfa), Amida (Diyarbakır), Anastasiopolis (Dara/Oğuz), Martyropolis (Silvan), Constantia (Viranşehir), and their surroundings, and the rural Tur Abdin region. The period covered spans the last centuries of Byzantine and the first century and a half of Arab rule, when the region was, on the one hand, a stage of war and riven by religious controversies, and a cultural interspace on the other. The book discusses the different dynamics in this frontier region and the resulting built environment and church architecture in pursuit of providing a regional contribution to the study of the transformation that the Byzantine civilization underwent in the late antique period and understanding the continuities and changes after the Arab conquest.

“The Sciences of the Ancients”: Speculation on the Origins of Philosophy, Medicine, and the Exact Sciences

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
William F. McCants
Keyword(s):  
Hebrew Bible ◽  
Near East ◽  
The Other ◽  
Ancient Near East ◽  
Greek Philosophy ◽  
Classical Greece ◽  
Medicine And Philosophy ◽  
Science Philosophy

This chapter discusses the attempts to explain the origins of science, philosophy, and medicine. In classical Greece, medicine and philosophy were held to be Greek inventions, whereas the mathematical, or exact, sciences were believed to have originated in the ancient Near East, usually Egypt or Babylon. In the Hellenistic and Roman periods, the “barbarian” nations also laid claim to medicine and philosophy, with some Greek and Roman agreement. Jews in particular focused on philosophy when advancing their claims to civilizational priority rather than laying claim to the other sciences or civilization in general. This was for at least two reasons. First, soon after Alexander's conquests, Greeks promulgated the image of Jews as a philosophical race; when Greek and Roman authors later started to portray Jews as misanthropic outsiders, Jewish scholars sought to reinforce the earlier positive, transconfessional image. Second, once the Hebrew Bible was translated into Greek, Greek-speaking Jews could read their scriptures and note parallels with Greek philosophy.

Direction

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcus Nordlund
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Main Plot ◽  
The One

Chapter 1 is entitled ‘Direction’, with a pun on the theatrical and the spatial senses of the word ‘direction’. The main purpose of the chapter is to mediate between, on the one hand, James Hirsh’s extended argument that Shakespeare’s soliloquies and asides were almost exclusively self-addressed, and, on the other, the modern tendency of scholars, actors, and directors to return Shakespeare to his medieval, audience-addressed roots. The chapter then turns to an extended reading of Launce’s soliloquies in The Two Gentlemen of Verona which explores how their satirical counterpoint to the main plot interrogates the underlying conditions of Shakespeare’s dramatic art.

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